Sarah Elizabeth Baker

Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth

When Sarah Elizabeth Baker was born on 25 May 1870, in Hooper, Weber, Utah, United States, her father, Reuben Baker, was 39 and her mother, Mary Ann Savage, was 33. She married Joseph David Burnett on 21 December 1893, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 7 April 1947, in Roy, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Joseph David Burnett
1869–1947
Sarah Elizabeth Baker
1870–1947
Marriage: 21 December 1893
Herbert Burnett
1894–1894

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  • Sarah E Baker in household of Reuben A Baker, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Sarah E Baker, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1941"
  • Sarah E. Baker, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"

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1889

Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Name Meaning

English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village. The right to be in charge of this and exact money or loaves in return for its use was in many parts of the country a hereditary feudal privilege. Compare Miller . Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for baking particularly fine bread or by a baker of pottery or bricks.

Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘baker’, for example Dutch Bakker , German Becker and Beck , French Boulanger and Bélanger (see Belanger ), Czech Pekař, Slovak Pekár, and Croatian Pekar .

History: Baker was established as an early immigrant surname in Puritan New England. Among others, two men called Remember Baker (father and son) lived at Woodbury, CT, in the early 17th century, and an Alexander Baker arrived in Boston, MA, in 1635.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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